Excellent Opportunities for Work Study Students
WORK AS A READING TUTOR

Help Children Improve Their Reading Skills

Recognizing the importance of literacy, President Clinton and the United States Government developed a program to develop children’s reading and writing skills, while paying college students who are eligible for Work-Study. The “AMERICA READS” Program will employ Work-Study students as tutors who promote education and literacy in neighborhood schools. LaGuardia Community College pllaces Work-Study students into the Long Island City YMCA and public schools of District 24 in Queens.

President Clinton’s “AMERICA READS CHALLENGE” mobilizes an army of tutors to help the problem that 40% of children are not reading well enough by the end of the third grade. Research shows that if children cannot read well at that point, their chances for later success become significantly lower.

This is a unique, prestigious and very special opportunity to join nearly 100,000 other college students nationwide in a literacy campaign, and you will also be making a very important contribution to the children and the community. You must be a Federal Work Study Student to work in this program.

You will be trained in the techniques of tutoring before you start, and you will be required to attend an hour workshop every week (training time will count as Work-Study hours). You will then be assigned to work in an after school center of your choice.

Please contact the Financial Aid Office or Prof. Marcia Glick (482-5639) of the Communication Skills Department in E 115 for more details on the “America Reads Challenge” Program.

Click on the above logo to visit the official website for the America Reads Challenge.

To learn about other America Reads Challenge Federal Work-Study Programs and National Service Initiatives in New York, click here.